Three More Notes 12/28

December 28th, 2010

The regular after-practice blog post is right underneath this one, but I uncovered three things while writing a story that I wanted to share.

First, talking to Ryan Craig about facing Syracuse, he used the phrase, “off the schneid,” meaning to snap a losing streak. I’ve heard it a million times but never knew what it meant. Word detective is on the case. It has to do with Yiddish and tailors and the card game Gin. Learning stuff is fun.

Second, in previewing Saturday’s game with Norfolk, I went back and looked at the last game between the teams. They added a ton of penalties since the last time I saw that box score. Check it out. All the guys who were involved in the line brawl at the end now have fighting majors. I don’t think they did originally.

Third, there’s a chance Thursday’s game in Pittsburgh could have the biggest crowd to ever see a WBS game. The biggest crowd for a “home” game was 9,111 against Cincinnati at Mellon Arena in 2001. That record will in all likelihood be broken Thursday. Word is about 10,000 tickets have already been sold. The biggest crowd for any regular-season game that I can find is 12,512 for Charlotte’s home opener this season. I don’t think any of the playoff games at the big building in Philly did a bigger number than that, but I’m not sure. Regardless, Thursday could make a run at the WBS regular-season record, depending on how things go the next few days.

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